#169
How the Heck Do We Hire Developers in 2026?
Coding interviews are dead. So what actually makes a good developer in 2026? Meanwhile, Railway's AI agent goes rogue, the NYT sues Brave over its paywall, and Squarespace slashes jobs. 🔥
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#168
Are Dev Conferences Dying?
What even is a dev conference in the age of AI? We report back from React Advanced, unpack GitHub’s Copilot-everything strategy, and see how Claude Code reviews 30K PRs a day.
#167
AI is Making Code Reviews Worse
More AI-generated code, more review misery, zero easy answers. 🫠Meanwhile, everything’s getting hacked, TypeScript’s getting forked into oblivion, and Anthropic reinvented source control.
#166
The AI Clone Wars Continue
AI-powered software cloning is showing absolutely no chill 💀, TanStack Start goes stable in 1.0, OpenCode 2.0 levels up, and Meta joins the agent wars. Lawsuits incoming?
#165
Open Source Was Fun While It Lasted
AI-generated PRs are driving OSS maintainers to close the gates 🚪, Claude clones Adobe, and Pi 1.0 drops. Just another week in tech!
#164
Developers Are Tired of This Sh*t
The State of Devs survey confirms it: we’re tired. 😩 Meanwhile, EmDash, Vinext & Vite+ hit 1.0, OpenAI dropped 30+ things at Dev Day, and AI agents still have a prompt-injection problem.
#163
Do Frameworks Still Matter Anymore?
Ruby on Rails creator DHH says he wouldn’t recommend it in 2026 🤯, Safari 27 brings the goods in WebKit, and the new burning question of the agentic AI era is: do frameworks even matter anymore?
#162
Shopify Breaks Up with React Native
AI model Jev is betting that not every software decision needs an LLM, React 19.3 quietly levels up, and Shopify is breaking up with React Native for Swift and Kotlin. Plus, Claude hacked OpenAI, but ethically.
#161
Tailwind Has a New Home
The guys behind the Shai-Hulud npm attacks have been arrested, Shopify acquires Tailwind CSS, and somehow the WordPress/Mullenweg saga is back for another season.
#160
GPT-6 vs. Claude 5.1
It's maximum AI chaos as Anthropic and OpenAI both drop new models that are the best yet, we're wondering how to tell if an LLM wrote something, and someone's keeping a tally of AI agent felonies. Everything is fine.
#159
Is AI Making Us Worse Devs?
The latest AI discourse asks whether agents are making us worse developers, Bun 1.4 arrives absolutely stacked, OpenAI is throwing money at WebMCP to make the web more agent-friendly.